Common Core State StandardRH.CCS.7 Grades 6-12: Students are asked to locate a country or geographical area on a map, connecting information with a specific location. Then, students answer a series of quiz questions based on a current news event happening in that location. Students must combine their prior knowledge with information presented in the question to determine the correct answers.

Philippines president accused of hiring hit men
-- 09/19/2016

First question (of five)

Q: In an extraordinary hearing in the Philippine Senate, a witness claimed that before Rodrigo Duterte became president, he paid a squad of hit men to carry out summary executions that involved feeding a body to a crocodile and dumping bodies into the sea. Where is the Philippines?